McCain: no mo MoDo

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Maureen Dowd has been barred from John McCain's campaign plane. Here's the explanation, from the Post-Gazette's Timothy McNulty:

It all started when Maureen covered an Aug. 30 McCain-Palin rally in Washington, Pa., then wasn't let on the McCain plane afterward, forcing her to overnight at a Pittsburgh airport hotel while the traveling press went on without her.

"I had had a great relationship with
John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So
at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press
office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable
future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicole Wallace was gloating about it
to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email.